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J W. EDMONDS.

TRANSPARENT BLOWER FOR FIRE PLACES. No; 280,154.

Patented June 26, 1883.

INVENTOR 2 WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. EDMONDS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRANSPARENT BLOWER FOR FIRE-PLACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,154, dated June 26, 1883.

Application filed Februarvfl. 1883. (No model.)

,Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section; and Fig. 3, a like cross-section, showing a slight modification.

In the drawings, A represents a blower, made of glass or some transparent material, and which may be placed in a suitable frame. The blower rests against the rear surface of the side posts of the mantel, and is held across the upper part of the fire-place opening, while its lower edge is sustained in hook-clips B, fastened to.

the wall or the uprights of the mantel, and its upper edge in a stud or clip, 0, fastened in the fire-place wall. By these means the blower is always held to the fire-place loosely, so that it can readily contract and expand without danger of fracture.

What I claim as new and of my invention 1s- The combination, with a grate fire-place, of the clips B 0, adapted to support a blower, as shown and described.

JOHN WILLIAM EDMONDS.

Witnesses:

QSOAR F. GUNZ, O. SEDGWICK. 

